Topic: Tether Splits with it Auditors without a Verifiable Audited Accounts (Read 121 times)

Tether Splits with It Auditors without a Verifiable Audited Accounts

For a stable currency, Tether and his Bitfinex acolyte are at the center of much instability within the cryptoverse. Hardly a week goes by when Tether is not in the news. After it emerged during the week that Tether had said goodbye to his auditor, critics of the company made a prior consultation to have a look at the company’s books. The months of promises have ended with a groan now that auditor Friedman LLP has left the stage.

Tether, Friedman, and the Audit That Has Never Been

The story of Tether is like a classic child who has often hidden many seeds of truth. What is out of the question is that the chains (tokens with a fixed value of $ 1) are compatible as a substitute fiduciary currency medium for millions of cryptocurrencies and several important exchanges. Most people do not have any problem with this arrangement, nor do they dispute that Tether, and Bitfinex, the exchange of owners has a controlling majority share in the companies.

With Coinbase recording $ 1 billion in revenue per year, Binance raising $ 300 million and Coincheck instantly compensating victims of the $ 400 million NEM trick in Japanese yen, there is no shortage of money. It is the secret form in which Tether operates that has given cause for concern. Last year, after persistent rumors of the company did not have the USD to cover the USDTs they issued blithely, Tether reluctantly accepted a public audit. Operators wait for the report to be issued, but the delays accumulated, the commentators ventured to it were never published. It seems you’re right

Everyone Speaks Without Action

Friedman LLP has confirmed that his relationship with Tether has come to an end, but gave precedents on the reason for the separation of the media, preferring to jog the squares over the permanence “committed to the process”. The biggest fear is transpiring that Tether lacks the USD to cover the USDT tokens he is issuing; Up to $ 500 million per week of them have been introduced to the cryptocoins this year. But even if Tether / Bitfinex had the assets but was issuing bonds for no reason, it was still a red flag.

In theory, issuing bundles of bonds in accordance with the deposits in fiat money in a Tether bank account should be simple. Conducting an audit of that process should also be a simple task. The audit was conducted in May 2017 with the presentation of Friedman LLP conducting “a comprehensive audit of the balance”.

“Given the extraordinary procedures, it was clear that a transaction was inaccessible within a reasonable time, “Friedman said on Saturday. The complexity of this task is discussed, in particular by the vocal critic of Tether.


Weighing The Need For A Balance Sheet

Most people are not as determined as Tether criticizes Bitfinexed; they just want everything to be in order and then they can trade again with the confidence that the carpet will not be swept under their feet. It’s hard to say what that would be, but it would not be for the markets, but it will not be good. In the vacuum created by the shameful silence of Tether, the Trusttoken alternative stablecoin was presented as the natural successor.


Some crypto-economists believe that the very concept of a stable currency is not viable and is destined to fail, either due to government regulation or the inability to maintain a stable price. Tether, for example, is staggering around 2%, with purchase orders for the token exceeding $ 1 during the main bitcoins falls, and a fall below $ 1 this weekend when the news of Friedman was released. . It remains to be seen if Tether’s competitors exceed these objectives. Given the uncertainty of the Tether mess that has been sown, whatever the crop, successively we will have to make great efforts to ensure that their books are audited and that transparency is standard.